Climate Change

"Clean Energy Has Shed Nearly 600,000 US Jobs Due To Pandemic: Report"

"The U.S. clean energy sector has lost 17% of its work force, or nearly 600,000 jobs, as stay-at-home orders halt production of components from solar panels to electric cars and slow installations at homes and businesses, according to a report released on Wednesday."

Source: Reuters, 05/14/2020

"America’s Longest River Was Recently Drier Than During The Dust Bowl"

"Rising temperatures due to climate change dramatically reduced the snowpack that feeds the Upper Missouri River Basin". "For the first decade of the century, the Upper Missouri River Basin was the driest it’s been in 1,200 years, even more parched than during the disastrous Dust Bowl of the 1930s, a new study says."

Source: Washington Post, 05/12/2020

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